Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-13

Is Known IS lQaI SQ6 sSlleu lIOm 06I pOIt
and was never heard Of more"
The bugle now pesled out on the night
the "Retire," warning everyone off the
upper deck out the watch; and the cpl
sode was over.
II was not anticipated that this third
Burmese wsr of ours, which was expect
ed to be q species OF military promenade,
would end in series of bloody and dis
astrous Dacoitie conflicts and skirmishes
and would eventually cost us the life OF
the gallant MCPHERSON, one OF our most
splendid officers.
With the actual cause Of the war our
narrative has little more TO do than our
soldiers hsd,as they had bus to obey their
orders.
Suffice it to soy that since the acces-
sion of King TheebaW in October, 1878,
he had continued s series of insults anu
dangerous intrigues against us, that
could not fail to Justify the government
in annexirg a country that had become
source Of peril and annoyance to our
Indian Empire, and those outrages began
with the illusage of cur people in Man
dslay, some Of whom were tortured
drawn neck and heels together and hung
head downwards-for purposes of extor-
ton. His swordsmen boarded our steam
ers, carried off the passengers OF both
sexes and all ages. Then came the gen
eral slaughter Of the entire royal family,
without provocstion, on many successive
nights, in prison; and the bodies were
heaped up in holes. Touching tales were
told of women and children pleading for
life In vain, till their cries ceased under
the bludgeons or strRngling fi0gers OF
their drunken executioners. Ga Sunday,
the 10th of February, 1879-according to
TIE Blue Book-"eight cart loads Of
bodies of Princes of the Blood were con-
veyed out of the city by the funeral
gate and thrown into the river" Ole OF
the Queens maid Of honor. a handsome
girl, was put to death on false accusa
ton, by means OF unparalleled atrOcity,
yet che received only seven blows, and
died Though she IVES young and strong.
Ambassadors were put to the swords ;snd
bands Of men, whom TheebaW's oppres
sion ruined, raided all the villages on our
frontiers.
In October, 1884, there occurred the
slaughter Of MaudalaY, 10 which 800 per
sons, many of them British subjects,
perlshed; snd tie event is thus described
by an eye-witness:-
"The sequel TO the massacre was IS
horrible as that CHASTITY incident itself.
Some of the beads Of the victims were
stuck upon bam5oos in the cemetery,
where the scene, when 1 visited it, was
appalling. TIE King gave orders rhaf
the dead men we're not to be buried for
three days, Sd that people might see what
terrible thing il was to lncur his
displessure; and they Were mu-
tilsted bodies lying in CHASTITY emo
fostering n aps, riddled with shot and
hacked TO pieces beyond all recognition,
while & number OF fients il human shape
were actually Chopping off arms and lege
20 save the msnecle5 and shackes. Not
only thai; but the dead and the dying had
been carted eff together, and IN scme
cases the quiverlng OF limb told that tne
death agony WAS not yet over. When l
visited the cemetery the work Of inter
ment had begun, and tie dead men were
being huddled, four or five together, into
shallow graves, with oDly foot OF esrlh
TO cover them. The pigs and parish dogs
had already been feastlrg on the slain,
and their banquet will be continued after
the sections have withdrawn. Ia strik-
lug contrast to this picture, saw little
children playing about. I'll unconscious
OF their terrible surroundings. Mean
while, the ruffiln king and his court have
been holding high festival. He rewarded
all those who TOOK part in the slaughter,
the butcher who could boast OF the most
victims receiving the richest reward"
(The Burmese Blue Book
Other butcheTles followed, ana mean
while the King hurried on his alliance
with France, which proposed to occupy
Ara, and join hands with this wretch who
Wss half madman and whole dencn.
II short, ssve Theebaw, no such awful
moIoch had called himself king since the
days Of Henry VIII.
Our troops, officers and men alike,
we're full OF hearty good Will 10 punish
in the common cause of humanity-this
dreadful Theebaw; and this WAS Why We
went to Burmsh, so for the time gossip,
pigstickiDg and tiger hunting stories gave
place TO ne1 interests in the land CT tie
white elephant.
ITO be Continued NeIt Week.